octavo
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octavo
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From Latin octavo. Doublet of octave, oitava, and ochava.
noun octavos
- A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.
- A book of octavo pages. He was also much of a politician; too much, perhaps, for his station. There fell lately into my hands, in London, a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets, relating to public affairs, from 1641 to 1717; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering, but there still remai
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Talk about this word "octavo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/octavo. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. octavo. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/octavo "octavo." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/octavo.Cite this
@misc{octavo_2026,
title = {octavo},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/octavo},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
